Systems Engineer, web3 dev, travel enthusiast, student of zen
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I'm joining /voyagers on their journey April 16th
Preach it! Fundamentals of the thesis have not changed. Hold strong.
gm! You're only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You're trying to straighten out a wiggly world and no wonder you're in trouble.
Facts
It's a packet prioritization and hardening issue with the "Agave" servers. Which collect user transactions and send them to validator to execute. These servers are attempting to process 100k to 10M packets per second. Even 1 microsecond on a packet is too long and each one needs cryptographic hashing ran on them.
As a dev just because you know what the problem is in a complex system, doesn't mean there is a simple fix. This is a gigantic production environment, and while congestion is a problem now, you would rather have degraded performance, than ZERO performance
Okay. I've been in a DEEP rabbit hole. I'll write it here so y'all can go tough grass and I'll go back to my cave. 3 days ago, core Solana devs have talked about how they know exactly what the problem is. And they took time off of firedancer development to work on it.